RE: Another Hypothesis

From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Fri Dec 27 2002 - 10:27:18 MST


Dehede011@aol.com wrote,
> In a message dated 12/27/2002 2:46:42 AM Central Standard Time,
> mail@HarveyNewstrom.com writes: It is a complicated situation and
> it is not
> clear that what the US does is good. Most other countries don't
> like what
> the US is doing to them. Many US citizens don't like what our
> government is
> doing to its own people. If any foreign country suspended civil
> liberties
> and disregarded its own laws and its own treaties the way the US is doing
> now, they would be declared a rogue state.
>
> Harvey,
> I guess you are arguing that unless we have been perfect,
> flawless and
> above reproach we have no right to take action.

Not at all. I'm saying that we don't have to violate the rights of US
citizens to protect US citizens. I'm saying that we don't have to discard
the sovereignty of other nations to protect our own sovereignty. I'm saying
that we wouldn't allow other countries to do what we do, so it seems
unlikely that they will hold any different position.

> Does that
> include not having
> the right to correct our own mistakes and clean up any mess that
> we might of
> made in the past? Does that mean that the Hitlers, Stalins and
> Sadaams are
> free to act but that we aren't because they alledge that once
> upon a time we
> made a mistake?

Nope. I never advocated these positions. We should clean up our mistakes.
I am glad we are doing so. But we don't need to wage a disinformation
propaganda war to blame our mistakes on somebody else. The original thread
was implying that everything we do is good and we can't understand why other
countries don't see this. I am pointing out that we aren't perfect, we have
made mistakes, and other countries are wondering why we don't see this.

--
Harvey Newstrom, CISSP <http://HarveyNewstrom.com>


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